Cookie Policy
Last updated: June 29, 2026 @ 22:00 UTC
This Cookie Policy explains how A-NET uses cookies and similar browser-storage technologies on the A-NET website and related web-based services.
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website may place on your computer, phone or other device through your web browser.
Cookies can allow a website to remember information between page requests or visits. Depending on their purpose, they may store preferences, session identifiers, consent choices or other technical information.
Cookies do not normally contain executable software and cannot by themselves access files stored elsewhere on your device.
2. Similar technologies
In addition to cookies, a website may use similar browser technologies, including:
- local storage;
- session storage;
- browser cache storage;
- service-worker storage;
- pixels or similar request-based technologies;
- server-side session identifiers.
References to cookies in this policy also include similar technologies where appropriate.
3. How A-NET uses cookies
A-NET may use cookies and similar technologies where reasonably necessary to operate, secure and improve its website or a particular online service.
Purposes may include:
- maintaining a temporary website or service session;
- remembering preferences or settings;
- remembering cookie or consent choices;
- protecting forms and services against misuse;
- maintaining authentication where a service provides sign-in functionality;
- supporting load balancing, reliability or service continuity;
- measuring technical performance and diagnosing errors;
- understanding how an online service is used, where analytics are enabled.
The exact cookies used may vary depending on which A-NET service or page you access.
4. Categories of cookies
4.1 Strictly necessary cookies
Strictly necessary cookies support functions required for a website or service to operate securely and correctly.
These may be used for:
- security and abuse prevention;
- session continuity;
- network management;
- remembering privacy choices;
- providing a feature specifically requested by the user.
Because these cookies are necessary to provide the requested service, they may not require consent under applicable cookie rules. Blocking them may cause parts of a service to stop working.
4.2 Preference cookies
Preference cookies or local-storage values may remember choices such as display settings or other optional preferences.
Where these are not strictly necessary, they will be used only where permitted by law and, where required, after consent.
4.3 Analytics and performance cookies
Analytics or performance technologies may collect information about how visitors use a website, such as:
- pages viewed;
- approximate visit duration;
- navigation paths;
- browser or device category;
- technical errors and page performance.
A-NET will request consent before placing non-essential analytics cookies where consent is required.
4.4 Marketing and advertising cookies
A-NET does not use cookies to sell personal information or provide information to data brokers.
If advertising or marketing cookies are introduced in future, this policy and any cookie-consent controls will be updated before those cookies are used where required by law.
5. First-party and third-party cookies
A first-party cookie is set by the website domain you are visiting. A third-party cookie is set by another service whose content or functionality is included on the page.
Third-party content may include embedded media, payment services, maps, analytics tools or other external functionality.
A third party may process information under its own terms and privacy policy. A-NET does not control cookies placed independently by a third-party website after you leave A-NET or directly interact with that third party.
6. Discord, Roblox and API services
Discord and Roblox applications generally communicate with A-NET through platform APIs rather than through browser cookies placed on a user's device by A-NET.
Discord, Roblox and other third-party platforms may use their own cookies and similar technologies when you access their websites or applications. Their use of those technologies is governed by their own privacy and cookie policies.
Server-to-server API requests, webhook requests and Roblox HTTP requests may generate operational logs as described in the Privacy Policy, but these logs are not necessarily browser cookies.
7. How long cookies last
Cookies may be either:
- Session cookies, which normally expire when you close your browser; or
- Persistent cookies, which remain until their configured expiry date or until you delete them.
The duration of a cookie depends on its purpose. A-NET aims to avoid retaining cookie identifiers for longer than reasonably necessary.
Browser local-storage values may remain until they are overwritten, cleared by the website or deleted through your browser settings.
8. Cookie consent
Strictly necessary cookies may be used without consent where they are required to provide a service requested by the user or to protect the service.
Where A-NET uses non-essential cookies or similar technologies that require consent, users will be given an appropriate choice before those technologies are activated.
Refusing optional cookies should not prevent access to the basic public website, although optional features associated with those cookies may not function.
9. Managing cookies through your browser
Most browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies through their privacy or site-data settings.
You can usually:
- delete cookies already stored on your device;
- block all cookies;
- block third-party cookies;
- allow cookies only for selected websites;
- clear cookies automatically when the browser closes;
- clear local storage and other site data.
The exact steps depend on your browser and device. Refer to the browser's help or privacy settings for current instructions.
10. Cookies compared with server logs
Cookies are stored in or accessed through your browser. Server logs are records created on A-NET's systems when a request reaches a website, API or service.
Even where cookies are disabled, A-NET may still receive technical request information such as:
- IP address;
- request date and time;
- requested route or resource;
- browser or user-agent information;
- request success, failure or error details;
- security and abuse-prevention information.
Further information about server logs and personal-data processing is available in the Privacy Policy.
11. Do Not Track signals
Some browsers provide a Do Not Track or similar privacy signal. There is no single universally adopted technical standard governing how every website must respond to these signals.
A-NET will continue to comply with applicable cookie-consent and privacy requirements regardless of whether a browser sends such a signal.
12. Changes to this policy
A-NET may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in the website, technologies used, legal requirements or service functionality.
The current version will be published at: https://a-net.dev/cookie/
The date at the top of this page indicates when the policy was last updated.
13. Contact
Questions about cookies, browser storage or this policy may be sent to:
Email: support@a-net.dev
Contact page: https://a-net.dev/contact/
Privacy Policy: https://a-net.dev/privacy/